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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Caught between Rape and Adultery: Women's Fight against Sexual Violence and for Justice in Northern Sudan

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Poverty Reduction

Prosjektet 'Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Povery Reduction' undersøker forholdet mellom religion og utvikling ved å studere hvordan muslimers private veldedighet er knyttet til fattigdomsreduksjon. Vi studerer dette i Pakistan og den pakistanske diasporaen i Norge og Storbritannia. Pr...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Re-visiting Gender in Development: Complex Inequalities in a Changing Asia

Studien Re-visiting Gender in Development: Complex Inequalities in a Changing Asia er et samarbeid mellom 15 europiske og asiatiske forskere som har kommet sammen for å utforske hvordan kjønnsrelasjonene og kjønnsoppfattelsen har endret seg i verdens raskest voksende region. Prosjektet er delt i ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

European integration in higher education and research in the Western Balkans

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan: Policy implications of local, gendered perceptions of security and development

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development: Towards an Understanding of the Gendered Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan, and Liberia

Fredsbevarende soldater er ofte tilstede i områder rammet av konflikt, men de lever ikke i den samme verdenen som lokal befolkningen. Den verden som de fredsbevarende styrkene lever er en verden av aircondition, den er ren og vel beskyttet. Disse styrkene har tilgang på gode boliger og kjøretøy, ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Community- based solutions for agricultural risk mitigation and transfer to enhance adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia

Agriculture is the primary sources of economic development in Ethiopia, however its role in alleviating poverty and food insecurity is undermined by a multitude of factors including the recent climate change such as drought and floods. Agricultural insura nce is seen as one of the best strategies...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Innovation policy learning from Norway in Western Balkans

The overarching objective of WBinNO is to assist policy makers in the Western Balkan countries to develop and implement innovation policies by way of identifying appropriate good practices in other countries and through the analysis of their emerging inno vation systems. These countries depend on...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The role of natural resources in sustainable rural livelihoods in the western Balkans. the distribution and flow of costs and benefits

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Biochar on acidic agricultural lands in South-East Asia: Sequestering carbon and improving crop yield

Biochar is charcoal from pyrolysis of organic waste. When mixed into soil, biochar is stable, and thus its carbon is removed from the carbon cycle. This mitigates climate change. Due to its alkaline reaction, biochar also increases soil quality by reducin g soil acidity. In South-East Asia, with ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation: An Integrative Approach of Development and Climate Change Interventions in Nepal and Mongolia

Det er viktig å forstå politiske dimensjoner av klimatilpasning for å sikre at klimatiltak faktisk reduserer, heller enn å øke, sårbarhet. Prosjektet har undersøkt hvordan utviklingspolitikk- og tiltak påvirker folks kapasitet til å tilpasse seg klimaendringer på en bærekraftig måte. Bærekraftig ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gendering Faith: Palestinian Women and the Islamic Revival

This project will explore the causes and nature of the increasing public religiosity of Muslim women of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Current research on the Islamic Revival in the OPT focuses on political and militant aspects, most notably on Hamas. This research characterises wom...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Forest and Soil Restoration and Land Use Change Impacts on Carbon Pools and Fluxes in the Himalaya: Research and capacity building in Nepal

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Development of Processes for low cost and high efficiency solar cell based on Upgraded Metallurgical Silicon

The proposed project intends to develop processes for the fabrication of low cost and high efficiency silicon solar cells based on Upgraded Metallugical Silicon (UMG-Si). The price of UMG-Si is significantly cheaper compared to conventional purified solar -grade Si. If fabrication process for hig...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Fighting poverty through alcohol misuse prevention in Malawi

Alcohol misuse is associated with medical, psychological and social harm via intoxication, dependence and toxicity. The link between alcohol misuse and poverty has also been documented in several studies. Interventions that can effectively prevent alcohol misuse are therefore expected to directl...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

A castle in Africa, a rough cut

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Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender of children, education and occupational choice in Nepal

In rural Nepal households appear to have a target of at least two boys with the expectation being that at least one boy may get a good education and either a high income temporary job abroad, or a permanent job at home. In the project we want to test this hypothesis. If the hypothesis is correct...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Health promotion, dignity and human rights: improvement of maternal health

For en kvinne i Afrika sør for Sahara er risikoen for å dø som følge av svangerskap eller barnefødsel 1 til 39 sammenlignet med en risiko på 1 til 3.800 for kvinner i industriland. Risikoen for varige fødselsrelaterte skader og funksjonshemming kommer i tillegg. De fleste dødsfallene blant kommen...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Large land deals in Africa: Gendered processes of tenure security, resource capture and collective action

For centuries global economic expansion has lead to conflicts over land tenure and changes in production systems. In recent years a wave of international land investments or 'land grabs', driven by global food, energy and climate change crises, have recei ved media attention and led to new resear...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Security Transitions in the Western Balkans - From Conflict Zone to Security Community?

A core objective is to strengthen the capacity of social science research institutions in the Western Balkans and assist them in building a sustainable regional research network. Through seminars, workshops and research, the project aims to assist Western Balkans researchers to join European and...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

How land titling affect the use of common natural resources in Peru

This project willl investigate the effect of the Peruvian land titling program on the use of the remaining common resources in rural highland communities. The Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru has over the last decade issued titles for over 5.8 million agricultural plots, ...

Awarded: NOK 43,499

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Legal Culture and Anti-Corruption Reform: The Case of the West Balkans

The key finding from Fafo's three legal culture projects is that attitudes towards law (i.e. "law-in-principle") amongst legal outsiders and insiders are remarkably similar across Europe (Western Europe; Eastern Europe; the West Balkans). Perceptions (i.e. "law-in-practice"), on the other hand, ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Human rights and gender dimensions of water governance in Africa: Actors, norms and institutions

The project addresses the right to water for personal, domestic and livelihood uses and the right to equal participation in water governance in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Unequal distribution of water sources and water related domestic duties, hamper women's social and economic rig...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation for small island developing states

(At max length) People, communities, and livelihoods in United Nations designated Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are considered particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, yet have also proven adept at adapting to past changing conditions. N evertheless, the rate and magnitude of cl...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

How formalization closed the gender land gap in Peru and the impact on women's empowerment - REISESTIP

The Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru has over the last decade issued titles for over 5.8 million agricultural plots, unique in the world when it comes to the extent and speed of the process. Fifty-six per cent of all plots belongin g to households with couples became joint...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Fertility and Poverty: The role of gender and reproductive health

Fertility has dropped below the replacement level in an increasing number of countries. The falls cut across world regions, economic development, cultures and religions. Within this general trend large variations prevail. Eastern Africa is a particular ca se where fertility remains high. Kenya st...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Women and Law in Latin America: Justice, Security and Legal Pluralism

There has been a wealth of new research on complex legal pluralism in Latin America, much of it linked to recent multicultural reforms which recognise the right of indigenous communities to exercise their own forms of law (part of the regional turn Van Co tt has termed multicultural constitutiona...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Significance of Political Organization and International Law for Displaced Women in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De Mujeres

Dette prosjektet har undersøkt hvor viktig politisk mobilisering og organisering er for at internt fordrevne (IDP) kvinner i Colombia skal få oppfyllt sine menneskerettigheter. Samtidig som Colombia er et konstitusjonelt demokrati med en sterk administrativ stat og høy økonomisk vekst, så er la...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Climate Change Discourse, Rights and the Poor: Scientific Knowledge, International Political Discourse, and Local Voices

Climate change as a scientific issue is now a widely accepted global challenge. Narratives of climate change become central to development discourse, and increasingly frame understandings of other global challenges, such as poverty and health. In this pro ject we ask how climate narratives affect...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Fertility outcomes and the roles of children in household risk management strategies in rural West Africa: the cases of Senegal and Benin

The relationship between fertility and growth is often seen in view of a child quality-quantity trade-off. Low fertility allows for higher human capital investments per child, and thus considered favorable to economic development. On another front, good r isk management is seen as a key to growth...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

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